Showing posts with label fines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fines. Show all posts
Jacob Kornblush: Blazio's New Ploy To Fleece Citizens
NYC speeding cameras gain revenue bonanza. The profitability of the police state. Nearly a thousand drivers have been ticketed by the city’s speed cameras since Mayor Bill de Blasio’s “Vision Zero” traffic initiative took effect two weeks ago. The Department of Transportation tells NY1 it has already issued 900 speeding violations since ... MORE
Radar Detectors for Speeding & Camera Protection
The pretense of safety and the pursuit of revenue. As budgets are still stretched states are always looking for new ways to raise additional revenue. Red Light cameras are popping up all across the country and new photo radar cameras are spreading to capture your every move on the roads. While all deployed as additional safety ... MOREBrian Doherty: Petty Law Enforcement Vs. The Poor
The state against the poor. The New York Times recently noted a new trend in Los
Angeles:
strict enforcement of jaywalking laws downtown, including the
little-known regulation that makes it a crime to enter a crosswalk
after the red crosswalk light is flashing—even if that red light,
as it often does in L.A., is counting down the seconds ... MOREWashington Times: Revenue Camera Shakedown In D.C.
Gimmicky traps are about money, not safety. Officials in the District of Columbia waited until Friday to bury the announcement that 130 new revenue-enhancement cameras are being deployed on the streets of the nation’s capital. Locals have learned a speed camera lurks hidden behind the “Welcome to Washington” sign, and they’re jamming ... MOREJeffrey T. Brown: Can We Finally Stop Pretending?
Obamacare lies reveal a political strategy. Every day, it seems, more people who have been screaming their hatred for those who predicted all we see coming true are admitting what we have known all along. The president is incapable of telling a truth, and what conservatives have been predicting for three years about ... MOREWhy Did The Cop Dressed As A Chicken Cross The Road?
To separate taxpayers from their money, of course. When California police dressed one of their officers in a chicken suit they thought the sight would be enough to make drivers stop at crossings - but they were wrong. As a campaign to make Lake Elsinore crosswalks safer got underway on Thursday, 31 drivers were ticketed after failing ... MOREBryan Hyde: Are Speed Limits For Safety Or Revenue
Red, white and blue are supposedly the colors of freedom. But that’s
not what most of us feel when we see them strobing in our rear-view
mirror. Most drivers, no matter how conscientious, experience a type of
anxiety when they spot a police car while driving. This is particularly
true when a police car is following us. It’s not that ... MOREStop What You Are Doing And Defund ObamaCare Now
Sign the petition. On October 1st, millions of Americans will be required to enroll in Obamacare and could lose access to their doctors and be forced to pay higher premiums and higher taxes. But there's still time to stop it. Republicans in Congress can stop Obamacare if they refuse to fund it. Sign the petition and tell Congress: Don't Fund ... MORE
Unaware Young People Will Be Biggest ObamaCare Losers
by Scott W. Atlas, M.D. It is a universal truism that the youth will determine our future, and this younger generation has already made its mark. With a massive voter turnout, they played a major role in electing Barack Obama in 2008, when he won two-thirds of the vote among those younger than age 30. And President Obama then capitalized ... MOREWarnings About Speed Traps Can Get You In Trouble
Government's reacts as moneymaker is threatened. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is using the case of a Missouri man to challenge a municipal law — one of dozens, if not hundreds of similar laws throughout the United States — that punishes motorists who flash their headlights at oncoming drivers to alert them to a police ... MOREABC TV: America's Speed Traps
Politicians thirst for more dollars to spend. So many American families
are thinking about that last dash of summer. One more road trip during
the warm days. But we know the
frustration of rolling down the road only to discover you've just sped by a
trap you never saw coming. ABC's Steve Osunsami heads
out in search of real answers about ... MOREWhy Many Young People Will Opt Out Of ObamaCare
by Kelli Kennedy. Dan Lopez rarely gets sick and hasn't been to a doctor in 10 years, so buying health insurance feels like a waste of money. Even after the federal health overhaul takes full effect next year, the 24-year-old said he will probably decide to pay the $100 penalty for those who skirt the law's requirement that all Americans purchase ... MORERoads Have Become Revenue Generating Surveillance Grid
by Michael Snyder. What do speed traps, parking tickets, toll roads, speed cameras and red light cameras all have in common? They are all major revenue sources for state and local governments. All over America today there are state and local governments that are drowning in debt. Many have chosen to use "traffic enforcement" as a way to raise ... MORE
Julia Marsh: NYC's $60,000 Fine For A Cigarette Lighter
Tourist shop fights silly toy gun ban. The owner of a Midtown tourist shop is firing back at Mayor Bloomberg’s crusade against toy guns, filing papers to block a $60,000 fine from the city for selling lighters shaped like small pistols. “We don’t have the money,” said Fred Shayes, 49, who owns US Camera
& Computer Inc. near Penn ... MORECops Sued For Illegally Ticketing Alerting Drivers
There is no law against warning others of speed traps. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against the Ellisville Police Department Wednesday morning. The lawsuit claims the Ellisville police have been illegally ticketing drivers that flash their high beams to other drivers to warn them about speed traps. ACLU legal Director Tony ... MORE
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